[FRCTop25.com]- Post-MAR/MSC, Pre-Championship Show!

[LeelandS]

For videos to show, here are a few things I would recommend showing:

3322, 3601, and 862's autonomous in the 3rd finals match at Kettering - The first six ball passing autonomous
2415, 57, and 3997's autonomous in the semifinals at Lonestar - The last six ball passing autonomous
341's 5 ball autonomous
67's 5 ball autonomous (Didn't happen in official competition. A cool video to show anyway.)


Some of the more interesting/exciting triple balances:
148, 922, and 2936's at Alamo - The first triple balance
639, 3003, and 843's at FLR - One of (if not the) first triple balance without aid (no stinger, etc.)
125, 1635, and 522's at NYC - Triple with one robot lifted between the other two
1501, 1756, 4028's at Boilermaker - The stacking triple balance
Finals match at Waterford - The first double triple balance

Other cool moments:
2016, 357, and 708's infamous match from Hatboro-Horsham where 5 balls got stuck in the net
The epic and inspirational match at GTR-West that pitted 1114 against 2056, including Karthik's pre-match introductions
One of the most high profile matches in FRC History, finals at Midwest, 16 and 148, with 2022 vs 111 and 71, with 2151(Can't find much better footage).
The astounding upset in the finals at Queen City, where 45, 781 and 3940 overcame the powerhouse alliance of 48, 1038, and 3193

These are just a few things that come to mind. I'll post more if I come up with anything later.
I hope this helps!

I wish I had the equiptment necessary to do a division segment! Oh well

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Leeland1126

67's 5 ball autonomous (Couldn't find a good shot of this in official competition)

As far as I know, 67 never pulled this move off in official competition.

Also, you should probably give credit to full alliances for some of these maneuvers. Why is it 125's triple balance? If anything, 522's unique robot was the critical factor there. Why are 357 and 708 not given credit along with 2016 for the ball jam at Hatboro?

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

As far as I know, 67 never pulled this move off in official competition.

Also, you should probably give credit to full alliances for some of these maneuvers. Why is it 125's triple balance? If anything, 522's unique robot was the critical factor there. Why are 357 and 708 not given credit along with 2016 for the ball jam at Hatboro?

One of 6 of the 125/1635/522 triples viewed from our robot's POV.

I totally agree with Sean as well. In our case, it was a total ALLIANCE feat. 1635s incredibly strong drive system and excellent driving skill. 522s very unique feature that we (125) were able to recognize in relation to 1635s geometry and convince our alliance to execute. It took all 3 of our teams on that alliance to accomplish that feat.


-Brando

[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

As far as I know, 67 never pulled this move off in official competition.

That is correct. We have done 4 a handful of times, but never 5 in an actual FRC match.

[nalbonec]

How about the alley-oop pass from 1807 to 4373 at MAR Chestnut Hill event in week 2, described in this thread (with direct link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQcHR8ewK8

[LeelandS]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

As far as I know, 67 never pulled this move off in official competition.

Also, you should probably give credit to full alliances for some of these maneuvers. Why is it 125's triple balance? If anything, 522's unique robot was the critical factor there. Why are 357 and 708 not given credit along with 2016 for the ball jam at Hatboro?

Originally Posted by Brandon Holley

I totally agree with Sean as well. In our case, it was a total ALLIANCE feat. 1635s incredibly strong drive system and excellent driving skill. 522s very unique feature that we (125) were able to recognize in relation to 1635s geometry and convince our alliance to execute. It took all 3 of our teams on that alliance to accomplish that feat.

I'm sorry, you guys are absolutely right. I just used the the most well known team of each alliance because it was an easier shorthand. I didn't mean for it to come out as only crediting those teams, just referencing a team that is easily recognizable was something that seemed logical at the time.

I will correct this ASAP. And my apologies to anyone I offended when I made this huge, rather insensitive oversight. My bad

And thanks for letting me know about 67's autonomous. I thought it was just that I couldn't find usable footage of it, rather than it didn't happen. I'll make sure to research the events more thoroughly in the future.

Thanks again.
-Leeland

[Nawaid Ladak]

Maybe a roundtable discussion of sorts covering different things. sort of like how ESPN does Around the Horn, PTI and First Take. Have a preset list of debatable topics and go for it.

[mr.roboto2826]

Debate the triple balance? Also what will happen if the scores are changed for the bridges? How about a showcase of robots from different regions like west coast, east coast, south, Midwest, central, etc.

[jcbc]

I haven't seen video posted yet of the MAR Championship (sorry if I missed it). Here are links to videos of the two final round matches:

Final Round Match 1
Final Round Match 2

Hopefully I did that correctly.

[Mike Starke]

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for all the posts and emails!

I'm still looking for cool matches/plays from this year! If you have something exciting that happened this year on the field, post the link in this thread!

[JABot67]

Originally Posted by Mike Starke

I'm still looking for cool matches/plays from this year! If you have something exciting that happened this year on the field, post the link in this thread!

Since double triples are so rare, it may be useful to have short clips of all three of them (that I know of):

Waterford Finals Match 2
MSC Quarterfinals 1 Match 2
MSC Finals Match 1

Too bad the videos aren't very good...

[jyh947]

Originally Posted by JABot67

Since double triples are so rare, it may be useful to have short clips of all three of them (that I know of):

Waterford Finals Match 2
MSC Quarterfinals 1 Match 2
MSC Finals Match 1

Too bad the videos aren't very good...

Tom Nader's announcing is so amusing to listen to. Watching him run around when the double triples happen in front of the FTA is funny as well.

[JB987]

I would like to hear more discussion about final bridge balance situations like MAR Championship Final 1 match that suggest there is no way to safely play defense anywhere near your opponents bridge. Heck maybe you could be pushed into bridge from 10 feet away and incur penalties? If same calls are made at CMP then triples become even bigger game changer?

[Robotmmm]

This is off topic but I did not know where else to post this question:

How are divisions selected? Is it totally random, or do they use some sort of weighting system to assure the powerhouse teams are equally distributed among divisions? (Sorry for the newbie question.)

[RMiller]

The Wisconsin Regional Finals Match 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSChOG_CB6Y

For a while (might still be) this was the highest combined non-bridge scoring (78-67) with nearly 100 teleop points scored!
Blue alliance ended up scoring more than 50 teleop points in both Finals matches!

I am at work so I can't find anything better. If anyone has better, feel free to post.